Hawke's Bay weekend rides

[MSTRS:Me]

Maybe and no.

So you've turned ghey and got a Honda. Plus, as befitting a gentleman of advancing years, it's a Goldwing.

[hXc]

Thanks to a good mate of mine we'll have a couple of cold Pizza Hut pizzas and maybe some chicken wing things too. So kai will be plentiful.

[hXc]

So you've turned ghey and got a Honda. Plus, as befitting a gentleman of advancing years, it's a Goldwing.

Ever seen two people try and pick up a Goldwing resting on it's foot plates on the curb? Extremely funny.

[speights_bud]

Yea like me. Cut your hand at the start of the month from now on. Bloody hell man. Priority please.

Its all good, coz im T.U.F.F (that spells Tuff!) Hand seems to be pretty good, will get the dressings changed after work tomorrow

[BigG]

Once bitten.....twice shy G, we are taken the wagon this time.....we can pick you up on da way through......

Na Mate thanks for the offer but it wont be cold it will be wet, I go down on the bike

[BigG]

So you've turned ghey and got a Honda. Plus, as befitting a gentleman of advancing years, it's a Goldwing.

Wait till Rob gets a hold of you

[BigG]

Its all good, coz im T.U.F.F (that spells Tuff!) Hand seems to be pretty good, will get the dressings changed after work tomorrow

Ya suppose to put the material under drill press not your bleedin hand and there is a vice thingy that you suppose to hold on to. Still it is only your crutch hand eh!

[Wasp27]

Na Mate thanks for the offer but it wont be cold it will be wet, I go down on the bike

What time you leaving then.........?

[BigG]

What time you leaving then.........?

I shall be leaving about seven providing I dont sleep in, got to get to bed early

[speights_bud]

Ya suppose to put the material under drill press not your bleedin hand and there is a vice thingy that you suppose to hold on to. Still it is only your crutch hand eh!

I tried... i really did!

i Had the vice and everything there set up as it (sort of) should be, i'd finished the job and the drill was stopped, so i undid the vice to take the job out and kinda got distracted/forgot to take the weight of the end of the tube hanging out the end of the vice, so the hand i had on the workpiece got itself levered upwards as the heavy end swung down and pinned it into the stationary Drill bit

Next time i'll support the end protruding from the vice me thinks, simple mistake made because we were in a hurry to get the job out on time

**I've just taped my hand up with the new dressings on and she's all go, can manage a glove on it ok and should have little discomfort while riding (felt good pushing bike into the van earlier)

[robertydog]

I tried... i really did!

i Had the vice and everything there set up as it (sort of) should be, i'd finished the job and the drill was stopped, so i undid the vice to take the job out and kinda got distracted/forgot to take the weight of the end of the tube hanging out the end of the vice, so the hand i had on the workpiece got itself levered upwards as the heavy end swung down and pinned it into the stationary Drill bit

Next time i'll support the end protruding from the vice me thinks, simple mistake made because we were in a hurry to get the job out on time

**I've just taped my hand up with the new dressings on and she's all go, can manage a glove on it ok and should have little discomfort while riding (felt good pushing bike into the van earlier)

Give it a real test and come around and mow my lawns

[Gixxer 4 ever]

Give it a real test and come around and mow my lawns

hahahaha

Morning everyone. Bacon and sausages are on and the boys are struggling to get up.... as per normal. Going to be a great day. See some of you at the track. The rest have a great day.

[robertydog]

Have a good day at the track guys and gals

[DeltaBravo]

So you've turned ghey and got a Honda. Plus, as befitting a gentleman of advancing years, it's a Goldwing.

Wash your mouth out

[Gixxer 4 ever]

So race day has come around again. Bloody alarm clocks. Well not true today. I hit the sack at 11.00 and was awake at 4am. Up to get the breakie cooking and wake the boys. Hit the road at 5.30 sharp in the rain. Wasn’t cold this month so that helped. Zoomed, as best you can zoom in the old Mitsi van, passed Warricks to see no sign of life. Wrong…. He was waiting at the Westshore turn off. Toots and waves and we headed in to the fog and light rain as we went south.

Arrived at Manfield and setup our pagodas’ on our concrete pad. Unlike last month it was wet. Bike out and gear set up for the day I realised the boys didn’t pack the chairs or the tables. Greeeeee. We thought the day might clear but no the rain came in and the race day was declared WET. No wet tires in our box of spares. Had a chat to the owner of Phil Turnbulls, he sponsors Zane’s bike, our biggest competition, and he told me they were running wets. Might have been mind games but we don’t have wets so that’s that. Out on the track for scrubbing in. Yep in the wet. Pat came in and told us we had some big problems with the way the bike was running. We pulled the spark plug and noted it was very wet and oily. Not good at all. Pat took the bike out for qualifying and qualified 4th. It was really wet and he rode as well as he could but the bike was the problem.

During the month we changed the type of oil we used in the bike due to realizing the oil we had run was not for bikes with oil injection. The new oil was just poring in to the cylinder and over oiling. We dropped the fuel out of the bike and ran a new mix. A lot less oil than we have ever run before. We leaned the bike up and waited till 2.30ish for our first race. 12 laps. Patrick made a good start but was running second to Zane when a rider went down and the race was red flagged. Back to the dummy grid.

Off to reform the start grid for the second time in the first race. Lights out and off. A bad start by Patrick saw him drop to fourth. He moved his way back up to second but just could not get grip without the wet tires. Zane rode a good race and took the win by 1.1second. Patrick put in the fastest lap of that race but just couldn’t get passed Zane. Well done both of you.

We decided to leave the bike setup as it was. Not game to lean it up any more we sat back and took in some R/R. The track was drying as the avo went on and we had built up some hope the tires we had could do the business. But by race time 4.44pm the rain had come back in. The track was wet and our hopes faded. Out on to the track and round for the start. The 125s were off and the lights went out for the 150 street stocks. A bad start for Patrick again. We have reset the clutch and it looks like practice is needed. He dropped back to 4th but had recovered to 2nd by the end of the first corner. Zane was setting a great pace in the wet. They continued to circulate for the rest of that lap. Then Patrick took the challenge and road hard under brakes and passed Zane on the inside at turn one. We all looked on with a stunned look of disbelief. Patrick just opened the throttle and rode corners 2-3-and four at amazing speed. A murmur went around the H/B group at pit wall and then the inevitable happened. Down went 22 at Higgins. Zane had to take action to stopp running Patrick over who was sliding down the track with the bike beside him. It was messy and not pretty. Five other people passed him and things looked bad. Patrick jumped to his feet picked up the bike and push started the old girl. She fired up and he jumped on the seat as it went passed. Head down and going hard he took back one of the places before he passed us at pit wall. Thumbs up and he was on a charge. Patrick managed to pass two more of the bikes and was now in third. He upped the speed again and disappeared around Higgins for the last time. Zane was way out of reach and we had resigned to the third place. To our amazement Patrick lifted the game again and hunted down Ryan Firm bike number 49f. Beating him over the line by 0.521 of a second. Unbelievable. Crash to second, all in 6 laps. Zane took the race by 15 seconds. Well done that man.

So it is wets for us if we can fit them in to the budget and the hope for a fine day next month. Plenty of testing and practice for our team in the next month and repairs to the bike.

Thanks to Gurlracer, Hxc, MSTRS and George for their support today. Great to have you all at the track. Lots of food left over. You just gotta eat more you lot.

To Wasp27 and Gary. What can I say. You guys have pulled the bike out of the pooo again and got it running as well as it can run. Gotta love these two strokes. Or not. Thanks you two and of course to Patrick for a spectacular day at the track. May be time we got the gear you need to race. And to Five Star Suzuki for your ongoing support and we also appreciated the pagoda today. Was nice to be dry.

I am asleep at the K/B. Just turn out the lights and I will see you in the morning